RE: CBV

Tony Finch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.srs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 15 May 2004, Stuart D. Gathman wrote:
>
> To validate a message, a recipient does CBV with either
> a MAIL FROM of <> or a MAIL FROM selected from the message envelope recipients.

It is often the case that none of the original recipients are available.

> Existing practice is to use <> as the MAIL FROM for CBV (is this
> true?)

Postfix does callouts using postmaster@.... in the reverse path.

> If we send something other than <> in the MAIL FROM for a CBV to an MTA
> that has never heard of this idea, will the CBV still work as intended?

Not necessarily. The MTA may reject non-bounces to sender-only addresses.

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